Anais Nin

If you do not breathe through writing, if you do not cry out in writing, or sing in writing, then don't write, because our culture has no use for it.

When you make a world tolerable for yourself, you make a world tolerable for others.

The dream was always running ahead of me. To catch up, to live for a moment in unison with it, that was the miracle.

It's all right for a woman to be, above all, human. I am a woman first of all.

The only abnormality is the incapacity to love.

Life is truly known only to those who suffer, lose, endure adversity and stumble from defeat to defeat.